An emotional project for filmmaker Karan Johar, the movie star Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan in lead roles.
New Delhi: Producer Karan Johar on Wednesday took to social media to share the first look of Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan from upcoming period drama Kalank.
The movie marks an extremely emotional project for johar since it was the last film worked on by his father, Dharma Productions helmer, late Yash Johar. The filmmaker-producer took to Instagram to share a heartfelt note calling it a 'film that was born in my heart and mind 15 years ago.'
Set in the 1940s, the film was originally supposed to star Madhuri Dixit and Sanjay Dutt but the film was shelved after pre-production. However, the new edition features actors Varun Dhawan and ali Bhatt in lead roles. The movie also stars Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt, Aditya Roy Kapur among others and is directed by Abhishek Varman who has earlier helmed 2 States.
Meanwhile, the hero of the flick, Dhawan, also shared an image from the shoot and stated that Kalank marks his fourth film with Alia Bhatt. Following their debut in Karan Johar’s Student of the Year, the duo went on to act in two other films Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania and Badrinath Ki Dulhania. It remains yet to be seen whether this movie will follow the success of their other movies too.
The movie is set to release on April 19 this year.
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